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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nah that's propaganda. The violent ones are mostly the police, and the occasional dipshit. It started with highschoolers/college kids wanting decent learning conditions. As in, having teachers, chairs to sit on, not wanting rats in classrooms,and school not crumbling onto them.

The answer to that from the government was to send riot police and maim the kids. Then all the media focused on the material damage, and it went downhill from that. The government spends more daily to squash the protest than it would have helping the kids.

Then the yellow jackets started to organise again as well and planned on having a big protest yesterday. It went smoothly for the most part, except for the police (unsurprisingly) pepper spraying protesters left and right before the protests even began. Then it went downhill because of rioters and looters (a sizable portion of them being cops, caught in camera, again, unsurprisingly), and the historic town hall of Limoges burning down (I don't think we know who started the fire yet).

Basically it's the government gaslighting us, and blaming us for material violence after 10 or so years of systemic and institutional violence.

[–] vorpuni@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 3 points 4 hours ago

Not pepper spraying, using CS gas. Otherwise all correct.